Word: scotts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...understanding, but at times slightly forced. In smaller character parts Walter Hudd was entertainly fusty as McComas, and William Devlin added a real touch to the last act with his Jovian portrayal of the positive ("You will, you don't think you will, but you will") Mr. Bohun. Scott Douglas played a nice maid...
Public hearings on the European Recovery Program ended last week. Before they did, all kinds of citizens had come forward to speak their minds. George P. Murdock, a Yale anthropology professor, thought ERP should be abandoned in favor of "the greatest Red Cross drive in history." Joe Scott, president of the League for an Undivided Ireland, wanted a guarantee that England would get no money to perpetuate Irish partition...
Canada, which had only one sure string to its Olympic bow, had to wait eight days to score a point. Then Glamor Girl Barbara Ann Scott (TIME, Feb. 2), with grace and precision, outshone 24 competitors to win the women's Olympic figure-skating championship. Her victory was so big an event in Canada that Prime Minister Mackenzie King personally wired her congratulations, and announced his action, amid cheers, in Ottawa's House of Commons. Final winners: Sweden (with 82 points), followed by Switzerland...
...that mere brute force is helpless against the intricacies of interlocking corporate structure. Aside from this scene, the movie has little interest except for some good work by Kirk Douglas and Wendell Corey as Burt's enemies, some spasms of fair melodrama and plain brutality. Lizabeth Scott walks through the show-in a manner presumably intended as alluring-as if she were lying asleep on a vertical...
Voices, too, seemed at a level below that of other New England Opera Theater productions. Only Norman Scott, in the lead role, did a first-rate job-others varying from not quite adequate to definitely annoying...